The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.
Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.
The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
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